Greetings everyone!
Greetings everyone!
I'm writing to you today in response to Google's announcement regarding cancelling G+. I don't think this comes as a shock as Google has eluded to doing this for a while.
The first point I would like to make is that G+ is still going to be around for the next 10 months so there's no need IMO to "jump ship" right now. Scrambling around creating new Whitehack sites on MeWe, Discord, Facebook and others will only fragment our community.
Secondly, we have created and curated a lot of fantastic content and it would be a disaster to loose this. To avoid this, I will be scraping all the content from our community as an effort to import this content into our new home. I'm assuming that Google will have someone introduce an export feature to G+ at some future point before the service is finally shutdown. If this does not happen, which is a possibility, we will have a backup.
Finally, with regards to where do we go after G+. Personally I think we should wait for the "dust to settle". There are a lot of people from other RPG communities exploring options and I think we should wait a month or so and see where the majority of them end up. I also read somewhere that there are 2 projects currently being developed to provide a social network for RPG communities.
If you would prefer to leave and start up something new please let me know, so that I can provide you with the exported/scrapped content (once I have it) so that you at least have a foundation to work from.
Happy rolling-under to you all!
-Jacques
Update: To follow the discussion of G+ alternatives, please take a look at: https://plus.google.com/communities/117817751909237129167
I'm writing to you today in response to Google's announcement regarding cancelling G+. I don't think this comes as a shock as Google has eluded to doing this for a while.
The first point I would like to make is that G+ is still going to be around for the next 10 months so there's no need IMO to "jump ship" right now. Scrambling around creating new Whitehack sites on MeWe, Discord, Facebook and others will only fragment our community.
Secondly, we have created and curated a lot of fantastic content and it would be a disaster to loose this. To avoid this, I will be scraping all the content from our community as an effort to import this content into our new home. I'm assuming that Google will have someone introduce an export feature to G+ at some future point before the service is finally shutdown. If this does not happen, which is a possibility, we will have a backup.
Finally, with regards to where do we go after G+. Personally I think we should wait for the "dust to settle". There are a lot of people from other RPG communities exploring options and I think we should wait a month or so and see where the majority of them end up. I also read somewhere that there are 2 projects currently being developed to provide a social network for RPG communities.
If you would prefer to leave and start up something new please let me know, so that I can provide you with the exported/scrapped content (once I have it) so that you at least have a foundation to work from.
Happy rolling-under to you all!
-Jacques
Update: To follow the discussion of G+ alternatives, please take a look at: https://plus.google.com/communities/117817751909237129167
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